[LINK] What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way [WAS] Google Wave in Canberra

[David Boxall]

On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 at 10:19:41 +1000 Tom Worthington wrote:
> Greetings from the Google Wave Hackathon at the the Australian National 
> University in Canberra. This free technical event about Google Wave 
> platform. It started at 9am, but there is still room for more people and 
> it runs until 5pm. There also some people following on Twitter: #cbrwave.
>
> I am here to see how it might be used for collaborative education with a 
> learning management system: think social networking for a tutorial group 
> (I talked about teaching Green ICT with a smartphone at Google Sydney on 
> Friday).
>
> More in my blog at: 
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/08/google-wave-in-canberra.html>

Anil Dash doesn't consider Wave the way of the future:
<http://dashes.com/anil/2009/08/what-works-the-web-way-vs-the-wave-way.html>
> Google Wave is an impressive set of technologies, the kind of 
> stunningly slick application that literally makes developers stand up 
> and cheer 
> <http://smarterware.org/1955/the-google-wave-highlight-reel>. I've 
> played with the Google Wave test sandbox a bit, and while it's 
> definitely too complex to live up to the "this will replace email!" 
> hype that greeted its launch, it certainly has some cool features. So 
> the big question is whether Wave will succeed as overall in becoming a 
> popular standard for communications on the web, because Google has 
> made an admirable investment in documenting the underlying platform 
> and making it open enough for others to build on and extend. I think 
> the answer is no, and the reason is because the Wave way is not 
> compatible with the Web way.
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